Henry Cavill is gearing as much as play spy video games with Kevin Hart in a brand new motion comedy for Netflix.
Cavill and Hart star as rival spies who cross paths in a Lamaze class when their wives grow to be quick pals. “Their double lives collide in unexpectedly hilarious and dangerous ways,” an early synopsis explains, “forcing the two men to reluctantly become confidantes and partners on the road to fatherhood.”
Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps and Ryan Reynolds’ Most Effort are producing the untitled movie, with McG directing. The script was written by Adam and Aaron Nee — whose newest movie, Amazon MGM Studios’ “Masters of the Universe,” is now enjoying in theaters — and Jonathan Tropper. The challenge is predicated on a brief story by Sean Lewis.
Along with starring within the movie, Hart additionally produces by way of his Hartbeat banner, together with Luke Kelly-Clyne and Bryan Smiley. Levy, Dan Levine and Emily Morris produce for 21 Laps alongside Reynolds, George Dewey and Patrick Gooing for Most Effort.
Cavill subsequent stars within the “Highlander” reboot, directed by “John Wick’s” Chad Stahelski, and Rawson Marshall Thurber’s “Voltron,” each for Amazon MGM Studios. However the actor additionally has an extended historical past with Netflix, the place he starred within the streamer’s uber-popular sequence, “The Witcher,” and reverse Millie Bobby Brown within the “Enola Holmes” motion pictures. Cavill is repped by WME. The Wrap first reported information of his casting.
Hart has additionally loved a prolific partnership with Netflix, with standard movies together with the heist thriller “Lift,” the buddy comedy “Me Time,” the action-comedy “The Man From Toronto” and household drama “Fatherhood,” which was based mostly on a real story. Final month, Hart was the goal of Netflix’s stay comedy roast, and his subsequent comedy, “72 Hours,” debuts on the streamer on July 24.
